366 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Doodia. 
general habit of Hedysarum, viz, perennial, for the most 
_ part shrubby, their tender parts armed with diverging harsh 
hooked bristles, 
Leaves simple, ternate or equally pinnate and stipulate. 
Racemes terminal, before expansion imbricated with two- 
flowered dagger-pointed bractes. Flowers of a middling 
size, and rosy, pedicels pretty long, and what is a strong cha- 
racteristic mark of the genus they become rigidly incurved 
soon after the flowers decay, pressing the folded loments for- 
cibly in against the rachis. Coro/as in the generality of pa- 
pilionaceous plants, Filaments single and nine-cleft. An- 
thers equal, oval. Germ sub-moniliform, Style clavate. Stig- 
ma capitate. Loments composed of from two to six roundish, 
one-seeded joints, united by slender isthmuses which admit 
of their being very perfectly folded up within the segments 
of the calyx. Embryo curved, furnished with a thin peris- 
perm. : 
1. D. simplicifolia, R. 
Shrubby. Leaves simple, ovate, oblong, lineate, villous 
underneath, scabrous above. Racemes terminal, panicled. 
Loments of several joints, 
A native of Chittagong where it flowers in October and ~ 
Eoveebe: . 
2. D. lagopodioides. R. 
' Perennial, prostrate. Leaves ternate, and single. Racemes 
oblong, dense. Legumes two-jointed, / 
Beng. Goluk-chakuli. 
A native of the coast of Coromandel as well as of Bengal ; 
flowering in the rainy season. a4 
Stems several, slender, perennial, prostrate, and rooting at 
the joints, round, covered with short scabrous hairs, Leaves 
alternate, ternate, and simple. Leaflets roundish, emarginate, — 
both sides covered with short scabrous hairs; the largest 
about two inches each way. = ate subulate, pee of the 
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